Hi George:
OK, house guest gone and I have access to my den again. I hadn't immediately realized I was being 'read' but I have since caught on and just went back through these threads to see what's what. This'll be a bit long winded, sorry.
My interest in the military and aircraft does come from childhood. My older brother developed an interest probably because the neighborhood was saturated with veterans and their stories. He still has a nice leather m1911 holster one gave him. Where we grew up in the '60s there wasn't a whole lot of entertainment which is why a trip to the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome was such a treat - lots of good memories and we still go all these years later. I've been up in their 1929 New Standard several times. He's chicken.
I was in a hobby store the other day and had a look at their plastic models. Surprisingly they haven't changed all that much and you can still get pretty much the same Airfix and Revell Spitfires. As kids the selection wasn't quite as broad so we built the same Spritfire, P-47, P-51, P-38, Me-109, Fw-190 and Me-262 models every other kid did. My brother progressed to flying balsa wood planes but I didn't. Later when his interest progressed to cars so did mine. He became a mechanic and I still love working on old cars.
UFOs are a different matter. We were all avid readers and endlessly encouraged to do so but my brother never cared for the Fortean topics. I was given a subscription to
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and got hooked on
The Stainless Steel Rat - this was my gateway drug into science fiction and weird s**t in general.
As for the UFO sighting. My brother and his girlfriend were in the front seats of his groovy '75 Plymouth Love Van and I was in the back on the bed. He spotted something and I saw what looked a lot like a big florescent tube with a blinking red light at one end apparently right across the road behind the trees. We had about a two mile drive into town and I caught glimpses of it several times and it was going in our direction at low level. There were smoked plastic decorative windows in the side of the van and I clearly remember one glimpse I had that I filed away. At the time I was completely panicked by the whole thing. My brother moved away and once wrote me a letter telling me something like it happened again - a real Travis Walton story - that had me going for some time. Cut to the chase - later I thought about that one clear look I got and I remember seeing rows of light just like the toy Goodyear blimp I had, plus I remember people talking about it scaring the snot out of a few people. I am virtually certain it was an advertising blimp. And because my older brother egged me on, because they do that sort of thing as s.o.p, call it the birth of a skeptic. Valuable training.
Here are two links to other interests I've posted here if you're interested:
Hudson Valley UFO sightings
origin story
As a former wide eyed believer I still have the interest but my filters have been refined. I try not to be dismissive but am well aware of how we can be manipulated - or manipulate ourselves. Confirmation bias can be hard to spot when you get personally invested in some things.
So on to the reading. And thanks by the way - feel free to read what you like. A career reading would be very interesting to me, out of curiosity. In terms of accuracy:
"I am not saying that you transformed gradually into UFOs but that you had a keen interest in flying. That eventually made you challenge that first UFO that you had seen in your childhood. You were a sky gazer of interest."
Well, my brother bullsh*****g me is what gave birth to my skeptical thinking, which I have applied retroactively to various things.
A model aircraft builder who started off building model aeroplanes similar to these old Airfix models.
He has a collection or did have.....
Well, I guess so but that also describes about every kid I went to grade school with. Not much going on where I grew up and we all went to the same two stores for our toys.
I am constantly focusing on a perspex base as he is touching up an aircraft.
Nope.
The feeling I get is WW2 and possibly British? Spitfires?
I have one model left - a Revell Spitfir my brother gave me for my birthday in '69
He also moved on to glow-plug fuel fired propellers and larger model
I didn't.
His hobby had escalated into UFOs as he has this great interest in flying objects but not so much modern aircraft.
Well, not so much. Sorry. Separate. Still a military history geek so I could probably go on about ships, tanks and what have you right along with airplanes of all generations.
The hobby had almost escalated into an obsession.
Resdicovered later in life, which is one reason I came to AE.
I see a school uniform of a green blazer. The cap is also green with gold beading on top.
Oh heck....are these comics????
No idea.
So, I find this interesting. Hope I have explained this and not rattled on too long. In my view, predictions made would have to be quite specific to fall outside of statistical probability. Synchronicities fascinate me and I also think that they are related to readings in some way - weird coincidences or accurate 'hits' are open to interpretation.
synchronicities
One day I'd love to have someone absolutely unequivocally
nail something I couldn't otherwise explain.
Hello pigfarmer,
The thing is, I had no intention reading anyone.
These things just come and I pick up on them.
People often come along later to denounce having been read which is often the case.
First impressions are what counts with me.
You made a point that every kid has a passion for kit aeroplanes and that is probably so.
Yet with your case, it is totally different.
I think you mentioned that you still have your Spitfire?
How common is that?
What is the chances of anyone keeping a model aircraft for this length of time?
It has to be zero.
What is the chances of keeping a Spitfire for that length of time?
Even more rare .
When I first placed this post, your post was immediately afterwards and you picked on the group AC/DC with the school jacket.
This was because you were reading the post and I picked up on it without realising. It was very strange indeed that you never mentioned the Spitfire. As this was in your possession and you are an avid aviation historian, this is very strange indeed.
It is like saying that someone has a tattoo of a bird on their left wrist and not mentioning it?
The green blazer jacket is rather ambiguous in my vision.
There are no caps with gold beading, but I did explain that I did not understand what I was looking at and added confusion as I thought it may have been a comic of some kind? These images just flash into my head for whatever reason? It could be my interpretation on a military magazine or comic you may have strong ties?
Now the most important thing I had said was the hobby had almost escalated into an obsession!
This has to be a kind of obsession after all these years whereas most would have dropped this hobby, you had carried it on to paying tickets for historic airshows.
You never told me that you were interested in old military history.
There was no indication and I was just as confused as anyone.
The vision was so strong, that if anyone would like to read my original post, I kept prompting for this guy to come forward.
You never did.
When I saw your pictures of Rhinebeck Aerodrome that did it for me, as I knew that this had to be it.
I even placed a post 'Anything yet'?
This was how sure I was.
I also saw images of model flying aeroplanes which you say was your brother.
The bit about military enthusiasm developing into UFOs has to be true. That does not mean one is 'let go off' whilst the other 'takes off'Aircraft and UFOs still share the same aerospace and it i like saying that helicopters and planes are different. Probably they are in a sense but they do continue a likeness in that specific field of sky observing.
You have shown that you are deeply enthusiastic with this subject, as I just checked up how long you have been here. You are an a
adept in flying and sky observation. Kid enthusiasm at an age of ten to latter UFO phenomena is a progressive action.
Yes...this is how it works.
A general mix up in identities when someone is close. Even though your brother was in this specific field it is unlikely that you as his brother would not have been involved with his passion?
All I can see is the pictures and the pictures showed a passion for glow plug aircraft. If that was your brother, what I cannot do is see what you had for breakfast or who passed the dinner plate.
That is impossible. No one can do that.
I am not being rude, but most people will revel themselves at the time only to take things back at a later date. It is a 'cooling off period' and happens in real life events. A person will often not believe what had happened and will look for something.
Most will know this guy from the previous forum.
We need to click on it to see what he said?
He was taking the p**s so I read him and 'nearly knocked him backward' with shock.
I wanted to read him again by which he wrote:- "Keep away from me!"
He got back months later to deny it, saying that he was fooling around.
No..Ia m afraid not!
His first answer was the one that counted.
The same happened with my cousin who is a none believer. This time I would not let him go, because the vision was so strong.
It came to the point where after searching I found the post which stated that the Romans occupied Danbury in Essex.
I thought 'phew'.
Showed it him...and you know what he said? "I wrote it!"
This was taken from his parish magazine. Yer..he got me annoyed because he kept telling me how he knew his village.
I then read some earthworks which again he denied.
I said twenty or so feet away from your house.
When I found it on the map, he said it was the opposite edge he was referring to ...lol
Then said that the site was not entirely round but bulging.
Oh heck!
I will show you all...lol
There is another one from that very forum. Two out of two with no other attempts.
As a conclusion on your reading 'pigfarmer' for remote sensing this is awesome!
Regards
George
